English Language Learning

Summer vacation is just around the corner!

Continue sharpening your English skills, and if you need some suggestions, follow this link: http://www.coloradoadulted.org/Trash/ESLonline/eslwebfun.htm

After next week I will no longer be teaching at HIS, but please continue to visit the websites I’ve posted in the past and continue improving your English.

Best wishes to all, and have a wonderful summer!

K. Rhodes

What is the history of Earth Day? Who are some “key players” responsible for increasing our awareness of our natural environment? To learn these answers and more, click on the following link:

http://earthday.wilderness.org/history/

Don’t forget to explore this website’s many links on the top of the page. Included are fun activities for kids, such as coloring pages and a book entitled What are Me and You Gonna Do?, as well as readings for older students, such as brief biographies of “Planetary Heroes".

Let’s do our part and enjoy Earth Day, whether rain or shine!

K. Rhodes

The following website allows you to choose from a variety of online English tests to gauge your level of English and improve on what you already know.

http://www.easyenglish.com/

Try a few … and then try a few more.

K. Rhodes

Join “Digger and the Gang” as they travel through many different lands requiring your help with some difficulties they encounter along the way. These adventures are a great way to refresh your skills in English, Math, and Science. There is also a link at the bottom of the page for Geography and History. The link below leads to adventures for ages 9-11, but notice you can change the age level on the left side of the page. Also available are ages 5-7 and 7-9. However, older students can participate as well. I quite enjoyed these adventures even though they don’t quite make it up to my age group.
Make sure to turn on your speakers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/digger/9_11entry/9_11.shtml

Hope your journeys are successful!

K. Rhodes

Do you ever feel a little “put off” while learning English because as you learn more and more new words you realize there are more and more words that you don’t know? While these feelings are a natural part of learning a language, there are ways to discover the meaning of words you don’t know through parts of words that you do.

Word roots are words in their simplest form, yet the meaning of these words change with added affixes. Prefixes and suffixes are examples of affixes that, when added to word roots, create new words.

Look at the following website to learn some of the common word roots and affixes. There are even some math and science words included.

http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/AS/506.HTM

Now your English vocabulary might double!

K. Rhodes